Chapter 49 (2/2)

Firstly, they would no longer be incumbent graduates and they would not be able to take part in another company’s school recruitment drive. Secondly, they only had a couple of months worth of working experience and they were already fired from their previous company – that would be unhelpful for their future job searches.

In other words, Zhou Muyan’s single statement had just planted a huge obstacle in the career path of the fired graduates!

However, Zhou Muyan did not see anything wrong with it. Even though he knew that the fired graduates would definitely curse him and his family, it did not bother him.

To Zhou Muyan, the gaming industry was just a survival of the fittest jungle!

In such a cruel environment, there was no sympathy to speak of.

But of course, there was an exception to the list – Lin Wan.

She was a girl and just like the rest, was recruited from a famous university in Beijing with high qualifications.

Based on the elimination list’s grading, she was part of the bottom 15% as well.

Just like many other youths, Lin Wan had the same mistake of being naive and overly optimistic.

To Zhou Muyan, the games were but a business.

However, for Lin Wan and the other youths, they saw it as an art or a passionate dream. Because of that, the way they went about things went against the judging criteria of the elimination system.

In other words, she was just not the sort of talent that Sun Strike Studios required.

However, there was a reason why Zhou Muyan had left her out of the elimination list.

Everything aside, her background was simply way too horrifying…

Her father was the President of the largest communication and smart hardware distributor, Shenhua Corporation! Zhou Muyan could not afford to offend someone like that.

In fact, he could not wish for more than to be able to make connections with someone like that!

Of course, Lin Wan did not know that her identity had already been revealed because she had joined Sun Strike Studios through the usual school recruitment drives.

But clearly, Lin Wan had underestimated her father’s care and concern for her…

The second day that Lin Wan joined Sun Strike Studios, Zhou Muyan received a call from the president’s office of Shenhua Corporation.

There were two demands:

First, he hoped that Zhou Muyan and Sun Strike Studios could help to take care of Lin Wan so that she would not overexert herself and fall sick.

Second, he hoped that Zhou Muyan could destroy Lin Wan’s dreams towards the gaming industry as quickly as possible so that she would give up on wanting to build a career there!

Even though he was tactful in his words, a smart man like Zhou Muyan got the point right away.

Lin Wan’s father did not want her to join the gaming industry but he did not want to go against her openly in case their relationship turned sour – that was why he chose such a roundabout method to do things!

To something like that, Zhou Muyan naturally agreed to it immediately.

That was THE Shenhua Corporation! If they could make some ties with them, Sun Strike Studios would only stand to benefit in the future!

Therefore, Lin Wan was the only one that was retained from the elimination list.

Zhou Muyan had long considered about what was the best way to mow away Lin Wan’s passion towards the industry as quickly as possible.

It wasn’t something difficult.

As long as he could show her the truth about the industry, that would do.

The gaming industry, or the domestic one at least, was just a sweatshop.

Elimination lists, 996, giving up dreams and passion for money and turning an art into a money making tool…

Those were nothing new within the domestic gaming circle.

Of course, those things weren’t absolute – there were still genius designers and studios with heart domestically.

However, they were extremely rare.

Zhou Muyan believed that as long as he showed Lin Wan the truth about the industry, she would definitely be extremely disappointed and leave it. That was a certainty!